Top 70 Bruce Willis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Negative, I am a meat popsicle.”

— Bruce Willis

2. “Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It’s a weird combination of elements.”

— Bruce Willis

3. “I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.”

— Bruce Willis

4. “Look, lady I only speak two languages: English and Bad English!”

— Bruce Willis

5. “It doesn’t matter how many people I’ve killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.”

— Bruce Willis

6. “I would say, ‘I’m alone, but I’m not lonely.’ But I was just kidding myself.”

— Bruce Willis

7. “I’m really just a regular guy who has had an incredibly blessed life.”

— Bruce Willis

8. “Hair loss is God’s way of telling me I’m human.”

— Bruce Willis

9. “Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.”

— Bruce Willis

10. “Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.”

— Bruce Willis

11. “I had no idea Canada could be so much fun.”

— Bruce Willis

12. “I hate government. I’m apolitical. Write that down. I’m not a Republican.”

— Bruce Willis

13. “Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.”

— Bruce Willis

14. “I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.”

— Bruce Willis

15. “Our marriage is like anybody’s marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It’s a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we’re home, it’s not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.”

— Bruce Willis

16. “My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.”

— Bruce Willis

17. “Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.”

— Bruce Willis

18. “Who’s driving this car, Stevie Wonder?”

— Bruce Willis

19. “They look right. And you move left.”

— Bruce Willis

20. “I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it’s on. I made the kids watch it every time, too and now they just love watching it. Stanley Kubrick’s great. And Blade Runner is one of my top three science fiction films. A lot of it has come true.”

— Bruce Willis

21. “Violence – look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who’s kidding who?”

— Bruce Willis

22. “Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.”

— Bruce Willis

23. “I’m always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I’m not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great.”

— Bruce Willis

24. “There is nothing better than strolling down the beach the way God made you.”

— Bruce Willis

25. “I think that the “what if” game is what you guys get to do. I don’t have to do that. I hate the “what if” game. I’m such a believer in everything happening the way it’s supposed to happen.”

— Bruce Willis

26. “What I say is what I say, I don’t always say the right thing, I don’t always say the politically correct thing. I don’t have any regrets about that.”

— Bruce Willis

27. “Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It’s hard work. You’ve got to get dressed up, you’ve got to hang around with beautiful women. It’s difficult. It’s a problem.”

— Bruce Willis

28. “Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful.”

— Bruce Willis

29. “The difference between trying to be fit and not being fit really means the difference between life and death.”

— Bruce Willis

30. “On the one hand, we’ll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.”

— Bruce Willis

31. “I’ve always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.”

— Bruce Willis

32. “I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don’t wear makeup in real life. It’s just part of the gig, that’s all.”

— Bruce Willis

33. “I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn’t always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.”

— Bruce Willis

34. “Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.”

— Bruce Willis

35. “Whether you’re a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.”

— Bruce Willis

36. “I haven’t seen this many men dressed in women’s clothing since my bachelor party.”

— Bruce Willis

37. “I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.”

— Bruce Willis

38. “You can kind of judge how old a film is by the size of the cell phones.”

— Bruce Willis

39. “If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.”

— Bruce Willis

40. “When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it’s someone you already know. You think it’s someone you’re yet to meet.”

— Bruce Willis

41. “I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.”

— Bruce Willis

42. “I think I’m much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It’s a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.”

— Bruce Willis

43. “I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.”

— Bruce Willis

44. “After I did the first Die Hard I said I’d never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.”

— Bruce Willis

45. “I’m much more proud of being a father than being an actor.”

— Bruce Willis

46. “My friends are always honest with me about films. But I really wanted to talk to regular people and kind of have a forum to interact with them; not just about films, but about everything.”

— Bruce Willis

47. “You wouldn’t want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You’d get bummed out, and you’d just stay at home and watch the news.”

— Bruce Willis

48. “I just have more fun when I get to try new things – and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.”

— Bruce Willis

49. “At 25, you’ve got millions of brain cells to kill.”

— Bruce Willis

50. “There are lots of different parts of movie-making that I participate in, but my favorite part is the making of it. I’m scared, every day. I keep thinking someone’s going to throw me the ball and I’m going to go, “Oh, wow. Oh, god. I just messed that up.””

— Bruce Willis